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Favorite Books from the 1970s

Description: Your favorite books written/published in the 1970s

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Octavia E. Butler

8,518 members

355 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

4,997 members

109 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

by Robert C. O'Brien

11,277 members

170 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Agatha Christie

3,670 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

5

by Thomas Tryon

1,374 members

33 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Golden Ball and Other Stories

by Agatha Christie

1,055 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

7

Dancer from the Dance

by Andrew Holleran

1,019 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Richard Adams

25,030 members

473 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

9

Elephants Can Remember

by Agatha Christie

3,836 members

64 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

10

Roadside Picnic

by Arkady Strugatsky

3,654 members

134 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Joseph Hansen

467 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

12

2,377 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Stephen King

23,314 members

453 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,780 members

268 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Joseph Hansen

289 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

16

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

by John Bellairs

2,508 members

74 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Diana Wynne Jones

986 members

19 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

18

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

21,973 members

611 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

12,533 members

338 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring

by John Bellairs

742 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Marlys Millhiser

522 members

24 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

House of Stairs

by William Sleator

942 members

42 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Stepford Wives

3,087 members

92 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

24

Among the Dolls

by William Sleator

269 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Best Little Boy in the World

529 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,378 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

Frog and Toad are Friends

by Arnold Lobel

10,616 members

263 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

Something Queer at the Library

by Elizabeth Levy

164 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

About This List

Started: Julie_in_the_Library
January 2023
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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